Talk:John Suckling

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 * Her lips were red, and one was thin; Compared with that was next her chin,— Some bee had stung it newly.
 * Ballad upon a Wedding.


 * 'T is expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.
 * Against Fruition.


 * She is pretty to walk with, And witty to talk with, And pleasant, too, to think on.
 * Brennoralt, Act ii.


 * Her face is like the milky way i' the sky,— A meeting of gentle lights without a name.
 * Brennoralt, Act iii.


 * But as when an authentic watch is shown, Each man winds up and rectifies his own, So in our very judgments.
 * Aglaura, Epilogue. Compare: "'T is with our judgments as our watches,—none Go just alike, yet each believes his own", Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism, part i. line 9.


 * The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
 * The Goblins. The same is found in William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act iii, Sc. 4.


 * Nick of time.
 * The Goblins.


 * "High characters," cries one, and he would see Things that ne'er were, nor are, nor e'er will be.
 * The Goblins. Epilogue. Compare: "Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be", Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism, part ii, line 53; "There's no such thing in Nature, and you'll draw A faultless monster which the world ne'er saw", John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, Essay on Poetry.